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Inward EmpireAn American History Podcast Author: Inward Empire
"The past is another country; they do things differently there."Inward Empire explores the role of ideas and ideology in American history -- how the surface of actions and events can be shaped by undercurrents of thought and belief. Accessible and thoroughly researched, each episode is a window into a world that is both profoundly foreign and strikingly similar to our own.Visit www.inwardempirepodcast.wordpress.com for pictures, maps, updates on the show, and more! Language: en-us Genres: History Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Birth of the Replicant
Sunday, 31 August, 2025
Something strange happened in America at the turn of the 20th century: a society based on individualism began to celebrate identical, replicable people. This episode tells the story of two men who drove this profound change in American culture. One was a business consultant named Frederick Winslow Taylor. The other was an artist named Charles Dana Gibson. Each created an identical human being, a replicant who would serve the needs of the economy. Taylor's replicant was Schmidt, a worker who could be "scientifically managed" for limitless productivity. Gibson's was the Gibson Girl, a woman who would be liberated by consuming products. Together, the replicants would change forever the way Americans thought about their place in a society based on limitless consumption.
